Short Order Frame Up
1975. The war in Vietnam is finally over. The politics and counterculture of the 1960s is disintegrating into nothing more than sex, drugs and rock and roll. The Boston Red Sox are on one of their improbable runs toward a postseason appearance. In a suburban town in Maryland, a young couple is murdered and another young man is accused. The couple are white and the accused is black. It is up to his friends and family to prove he is innocent. This is a story of suburban ennui, race, murder and injustice. Religion and politics, liberal lawyers and racist cops.
Two cultures existing side by side and across generations – a river very few dare to cross. When the murder occurs, however, those people that care about the man charged must cross that river and meet somewhere in between in order to free him from (what is to them) an obvious miscarriage of justice.
Commentary on Short Order Frame Up:
“Ron Jacobs has created a working-class brew of language and music, a quasi-bitter, semi-sweet world of weed and sport, of love and violence, of not-so-innocent innocence up against the walls of racism and power. A compelling story, alas, and an underlying reality of life in America.”
Marc Estrin, author of Insect Dreams: The Half-Life of Gregor Samsa, The Education of Arnold Hitler, and Golem Song
Ron Jacobs is the author of the first comprehensive history of the Weather Underground–The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground. His articles, essays and reviews have appeared in Counterpunch, Monthly Review, Monthly Review Zine, Alternative Press Review, Berlin Jungle World, Works in Progress, State of Nature, and a multitude of other places.
